AvTalk Episode 278: Gary O’Donnell, A321XLR head of program

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🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we discuss the Crowd Strike outage and why it took Delta Air Lines so much longer than everyone else to get their operations back on track. The FAA is increasing scrutiny of Southwest Airlines after a third low descent incident in just four months—this time a flight approaching Tampa was as low as 150 feet nearly 5 miles from the runway. A Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 crashes on departure in Kathmandu we discuss what we know so far.
As Airbus celebrates EASA certification of the A321XLR, we sit down with Gary O’Donnell, the head of the A321XLR program, to learn more about what it takes to get an aircraft from the drawing board to the skies.
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 278 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenik here as always with Jason Erbitowitz and Ian
0:18.6	how happy are you that you are traveling this week in the US?
0:23.0	I honestly don't think that I could be any happier than I am that I was not traveling,
0:31.0	especially Friday, Saturday, or Sunday of this week.
0:35.0	Or Monday or Tuesday if you happen to be a Delta passenger.
0:38.7	We're getting a little ahead of ourselves.
0:40.4	How are you otherwise?
0:42.0	We'll get there in a minute.
0:43.0	You know what?
0:44.0	I mean, I'm okay, all things considered,
0:46.0	a little coming out of a Heidi hole
0:48.0	after what happened last week.
0:50.0	I thought this was going to be a much different show. I thought that we were going to go full in on Farmboro.
0:58.0	We had some great stuff lined up and still do, but we're just going to talk about a bunch of other stuff first.
1:04.7	Later in the show we're going to talk, well my colleague Chris Lomis sat down with
1:09.6	Gary O'Donnell who has led the Airbus A321 XLR program from the beginning and they chat about the A321
1:20.0	XLR receiving YASA type certification. What went into that? What leading an
1:26.3	aircraft program is like and where the A321 XLR goes from here now that it has
1:32.2	been certified by Yasa and looking forward to delivery to the
1:37.4	revised launch airline Iberia later this fall. So that's coming up later in the program. That's exciting. It's been a long time.
1:45.2	Yeah.
1:46.2	Yeah. In interview and we're coming in hot with this one. This is a particularly good opportunity here.
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